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A Corporate Trainer by Day and a Fitness Trainer by Night

At 13 years old, New Zealand's Philip Andersson was in training for the country's 1993 National Squash Championships when his coach encouraged him to participate in a group fitness class.

"I was there begrudgingly. But then I met a girl who was a couple of years older than me. One class a night became two or three, just so we could be in the same room," says the 32-year-old, adding he fell in love with group fitness classes at the same time.